Question

Halifax Manufacturing allows its customers to return merchandise for any reason up to 90 days after delivery and receive a credit to their accounts. All of Halifax's sales are for credit (no cash is collected at the time of sale). The company began 2021 with a refund liability of $400,000. During 2021, Halifax sold merchandise on account for $13,400,000. Halifax's merchandise costs is 65% of merchandise selling price. Also during the year, customers returned $661,000 in sales for credit, with $365,000 of those being returns of merchandise sold prior to 2021, and the rest being merchandise sold during 2021. Sales returns, estimated to be 5% of sales, are recorded as an adjusting entry at the end of the year. Required: 1. Prepare entries to (a) record actual returns in 2021 of merchandise that was sold prior to 2021; (b) record actual returns in 2021 of merchandise that was sold during 2021; and (c) adjust the refund liability to its appropriate balance at year end. 2. What is the amount of the year-end refund liability after the adjusting entry is recorded

Answer 1

Answer:

actual returns:

refund liabilities      365,000 debit

        cash                     365,000 credit

inventory                 237,250 debit

     inventory-returns  237,250 credit

--returns on the previous year--

refund liabilities       296,000 debit

    account receivables  296,000 credit

inventory                 237,250 debit

      inventory-returns  237,250 credit

--returns in the current year--

192,400

adjusting entry:

sales return              670,000 debit

       refund liability              670,000 credit

inventory-returns      237,250 debit

      cost of goods sold  237,250 credit

--returns in the current year--

Balance of allowance for sales refunds:   409,000

Explanation:

When returning their goods the customer's receivables are canceled.

We also need to calculate the cost of these goods that return to the company's inventory.

365,000 x 65% = 237,250

296,000 x 65% = 192,400

credit-sales: 13,400,000

estimated returns: 5% >> 670,000

estimated  inventory-returns 670,000 x 65% = 435,500

We work with our liabilities and return accounts rather than the cost of good sold and sales returns as these are adjusted at year-end based on credit sales.

Balance:

beginning 400,000

returns      (661,000)

year-end

adjust       670,000

ending       409,000